FG TO REOPEN TWO MAJOR ROADS IN BORNO, TODAY

The Federal Government will today formally re-open two major roads in Borno State. They are the Maiduguri-Gubio-Damasak road and the Maiduguri-Mungono-Baga road.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, and his counterpart in the Ministry of Defence, Brig.-General Mansir Dan-Ali (Rtd), Service Chiefs, Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State and others will grace the occasion.

After the reopening, the Government Officials and Military Chiefs will have lunch with the gallant troops who crushed the insurgency.

#RebuildBorno: IDPs In Borno Eats 90,000 Kilograms of Rice Dail, three trailer load - Shettima

About 1,800 bags of 50 kilograms of rice which constitute three trailer loads, are eaten daily by internally disp‎laced persons in different parts of Borno State, Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima revealed on Tuesday in Abuja.

Shettima made the revelation in his keynote address at the ‘first annual dialogue on Rebuilding Peace in Borno State’ organized by a humanitarian advocacy group, AOA Global in collaboration with the Borno State Government which held at Borno room of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel which had Ministers of Health, Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole, Industry, John Kayode Fayemi, Statistician General of Nigeria, Dr Yemi Kale, the Director of the United States Agency for International Development, the UK Department for International Development, the UNDP, Norwegian government, other foreign and local development partners in attendance.

Shettima took time to highlight what he called food emergency as a result of influx of displaced persons who were trapped by insurgents before they were recently freed by the military.

FG committed to finding Chibok girls – Hajiya Amina

The Federal Government of Nigeria on Thursday reassured that it will continue to strive hard to find the 219 missing students of the Government Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, who were abducted on April 14, 2014 by suspected insurgents.

Hajiya Amina Muhammad, the Minister of the Environment, said this while speaking at the second year anniversary of the abduction of the girls in Chibok, headquarters of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.

Muhammad led a delegation consisting of two other ministers to the event. She said: “It is with heavy heart that we visit today. “We visit today because it is not for want of efforts that your children, our children have not been found. “We had prayed that we will bring good news to you now, but the only news that we are bringing to you is our continuous commitment to bring back those daughters to their families and their communities.”

BREAKING: Former CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamodo Sanusi is the New Emir of Kano

Former CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamodo Sanusi is the New Emir of Kano.

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has emerged as the new Emir of Kano after the throne became vacant on Friday following the monarch’s death.

The Secretary to the Kano State Government, Rabiu Zakariya, announced the name of the new Emir on Sunday. 

Borno govt spent over N10 Billion to fight Boko Haram - SSG

The Borno State Government has disclosed that it had invested over N10 billion to procure Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs), patrol vehicles and hundreds of trailers of petroleum products in the fight against Boko Haram.

"We have also provided material logistics and intervention on area of accommodation to support security agencies in the fight against Boko Haram insurgency since 2011," he said.

The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Ambassador Baba Ahmed Jidda, disclosed this in an interactive session with journalists in Lagos at the weekend.
Jidda said so far, the state government had only received N200million contribution from the federal government.

Borno State Government Confirms the Death of Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta

The Borno State Government regrets to announce the unfortunate murder of His Royal Highness, the Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji Idrissa Timta.

The Emir was killed around 9am today following a bloody attack by some gun
men believed to be members of the Boko Haram along Tashan Alade on the
way to Biu town, headquarters of Biu Local Government Area in Southern
Borno State.

The late Emir was in company of the Emir of Askira, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibn
Muhammadu Askirama and Emir of Uba, Alhaji Ali Ibn Ismaila Mamza, all of
whom drove in the same vehicle as they headed to Biu to pick the Emir of Biu
so they could all drive in convoy to Gombe State to attend the funeral of the
late Emir of Gombe who is scheduled for burial in Gombe today.

The late Emir of Gwoza had visited his counterpart, the Emir of Uba yesterday and passed the night in Uba ahead of their planned trip today. The two Emirs were this morning, joined by the Emir of Askira. The three drove in the same vehicle with the intention of going to Biu to be joined by their counterpart in Biu.

Unfortunately as they were driving in convoy to Biu, they were ambushed by gun men around Tashan Alade, soon after passing Garkida. The gunmen came after the convoy,specifically targeted the vehicle conveying the three Emirs and opened fire.

Boko Haram Attacks: Residents of Gamboru in Borno state Plan to relocate to Cameroon

Following the continuous and repeated Boko Haram attacks on residents of Gamboru community of Borno State.  The people of the area are planning to  relocate to Cameroon, saying that the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria cannot guaranty their safety and save them from the hands of the Boko Haram sects.

Gamboru town is a border community between Borno state in Nigeria and Cameroon. The residents said on Sunday that they had no choice than move to Cameroon in order to avoid more killings by the Boko Haram terrorists who recently attacked their town and killed about 200 persons.

DailyTrust Interview : What Boko Haram Fighters Told Me About Sect - Governor Kashim Shettima

Governor Kashim Shettima is, probably, Nigeria’s most troubled state Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the moment. Before he was voted into power in the 2011 governorship election, the insurgency in Borno State had begun to fester. In spite of all peace moves and military action, the crisis has not been brought to an end.

In this exclusive interview conducted last Wednesday, Governor spoke on the abduction of over 200 school girls of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok some two weeks ago, the state of emergency, the Boko Haram crisis generally, among many other contemporary issues

What’s the latest good news that you have for the parents of the 270 school girls abducted by Boko Haran two weeks ago? What are you doing about their rescue?

That incident is one nightmare that troubles me very much - as a father and leader. It remains the worst in my entire life. As a father I can imagine what a parent feels when a daughter is in the hands of abductors who are very capable of forceful marriage, rape, slavery and who are against education. As I said at a courtesy call earlier today, we are at a brokenhearted time in our dear Borno State because as we speak, over 200 precious daughters of Borno, 200 young enterprising school girls working towards a bright future, are being detained somewhere by our fellow men who claim to be devoted Muslims, whereas Allah who created all of us, has mandated us to protect women, to support them, to serve them with special attention and to even spare them during Islamic holy wars that the Boko Haram claim to be fighting.

Boko Haram’s massacre: Women to Organise Mourning Protest in Nigeria Major Cities Wearing Black

Thousands of women are gearing up for mass protest in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin and Abuja following Boko Haram’s massacre of school children and others in Yobe and other northern states.

‘Mother of all Protests’ will see the women wearing black, which symbolises mourning, and they will march on the streets of Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Benin in a peaceful protest to call for an end to the endless gorry killings in the north.

Borno State: How Boko Haram kills 74 in church attacks, 300 houses set ablaze

Boko Haram insurgents on Sunday evening attacked another village in Borno State, killing a soldier and 51 other persons. About 16 others, including policemen and traders, were injured while 300 houses were set ablaze by the insurgents in Kawuri, Konduga Local Government Area of the state.

Another set of the Boko Haram fighters, armed with guns and explosives, had earlier on Sunday killed 22 people at a church service in Waga Chakawa, Adamawa State.

The Kawuri village attackers were said to have planted several explosives in the community after attacking the nearby weekly market as traders were busy getting ready to close their stalls.

An eyewitness said those who sustained varying degrees of burns were rushed to the Konduga General Hospital and the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital for treatment.

Bulama Kuliri, a resident of the village, told journalists that the attack lasted for more than four hours.

He said, “I believe more than 50 people were killed in the attack because the whole village was razed by the Boko Haram people. There were loud explosions from different directions and dead bodies littered many parts of the village.”

Another eyewitness, Ari Kolomi, told the Associated Press that “no house in the village was left standing.”
“The gunmen were more than 50 and they were using explosives and heavy-sounding guns,” he added.

A soldier said two more improvised explosive devices exploded early on Monday morning, narrowly missing security personnel who were busy collecting corpses.

One of the police officers that evacuated the wounded victims, also confirmed that at least 52 people were killed and 16 injured.

The state Police Commissioner, Lawan Tanko, confirmed the attack but said he was awaiting details on casualties.

A protocol officer in the Government House told journalists that Governor Kashim Shettima was advised to cancel his “planned visit” to the community because “the military were still conducting an operation in the area.”

Shettima later met behind closed doors with military and police officers in the state over the incident.
In Waga Chakawa, witnesses told Reuters that insurgents set off bombs and fired into the congregation in the Catholic Church in a village in Adamawa State.

They said the insurgents also burnt houses and took residents hostage during the four-hour siege.
The spokesman for the Catholic Diocese of Yola, Rev. Father Raymond Danbouye, said those killed were buried at a funeral on Monday.


In the last one week, over 100 persons have been killed in attacks by members of the terror group. These attacks, according to the United Nations, led to 6,000 persons fleeing to neighbouring countries like Cameroon and Niger Republic.

On January 14 for instance, a car bomb exploded in Maiduguri, killing about 70 people.

Communities like Kwaljiri, Kaya, Ngawo Fate, Limanti, Njaba, Yahuri, Mude, Wala and Alau in the Damboa, Konduga and Gwoza Local Government Areas have all been sacked by the terrorists.